By Mitch

Building Scale0 in a garage surrounded by kid's toys. Fret not, Scale0 is extremely over-engineered on AWS.

If you've had experience with WordPress, you're likely aware that it needs to be hosted on a server. Whether you set up your own WordPress hosting server or use a service that does it for you, a server and database run continuously, delivering content to users who visit the site.

Doesn't this seem wasteful?

If you have a typical website with sporadic traffic, that means your WordPress server is sitting idle for extended periods. Probably the majority of the time.

The server is still using electricity, vulnerable to bots, and costing you money during that time.

And to handle spikes in traffic, the server is probably overprovisioned (a buffer of extra memory & CPU) -- meaning that even when you get normal traffic levels, it's wasting even more money and resources.

A lonely server waiting for visitors at night

Wouldn't it be great if your server only operated when it was needed?

This concept is known as "scaling to zero".

Serverless computing platforms offer that capability. While serverless providers always have some servers running to handle capacity, your site or code only runs when needed.

So Scale0 was named with that in mind. WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world. It should scale to zero. Imagine the impact of not needing servers for even a fraction of the millions of WordPress websites that are online today.

Scale0 hosts WordPress sites and uploads static copies to modern platforms like Netlify.

Scale0 is built on serverless technology with Amazon Web Services. So it hosts your private WordPress instances in a way that scales to zero. And when you host your public static WordPress website somewhere like Netlify, it's running on a highly optimized content delivery network that's faster for your users and doesn't have a database and server running your code 24/7.

We get a bunch of benefits doing things this way.

Your website becomes more secure and faster. It's cheaper to host too. It's better for the planet.

For Scale0 as a business, it means that we can seamlessly scale from zero to very busy when providing the service to you.